Overview —“ Insomniac, Green Day’s fourth effort, continues with the sound that they developed on Dookie as they try to become better and better with songwriting. If I had to give a general pattern for this album, I’d say it gets progressively better as it goes along with some …

Mykel and Carli is a song by Weezer which strays away from their typical power-pop sound and strikes me as being a bit more developed. Opening up in a very acoustic fashion with just an acoustic guitar and a simple harmonica pattern, the rest of the band soon comes …

Butterfly is one of the greatest hits from the 90’s. A single coming from Mariah Carey included in her studio album, Mariah. I was first year in college when I heard it playing in the radio. The song sounds sad and serious. Hearing this song when you are alone …

In Another Land is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album Their Satanic Majesties Request As with most of this record, the sound on this track is primarily very psychedelic which is a sound that I personally love. The track opens up with a harpsichord …

This album was supposedly 15 years in the making and is rumoured to have cost Axl Rose 15 million dollars. There have been stories and rumours about its recording and release ever since Guns’ untimely demise in the first half of the nineties. As a big fan of the …

Brain Stew is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Insomniac. The song starts off with a guitar rhythm by Armstrong which comes in and out of the track with rests in between each set of power-chords. Armstrong then comes in with the vocals of this …

Overview - Broken, the first EP put out by Nine Inch Nails, is basically eight extremely aggressive songs just fueled by anger, which becomes obvious not only through Reznor’s voice but even through his guitar playing. Generally I’m not a huge fan of albums that have just one feel …

What a meaningful song. A song about doing anything for the person you love. “Yes I would die for you baby, I would catch a grenade for you.” This is a great song, awesome melody, catchy and just a great lesson to top all that off. Bruno Mars really …

As a lover of contemporary Christian music, I sometimes have trouble deciding which CDs to choose. There’s Christian pop and even Christian rap these days, but when I buy a CD I usually end up liking half the songs by the artist in question and not the other half. …

King is a song by Weezer which appears on their self-titled record, otherwise known as The Red Album. Like other songs on The Red Album such as Cold Dark World or Thought I Knew, King isn’t a song sung by Weezer’s lead vocalist, Rivers Cuomo. Because of this, King …

When Taylor Swift’s newest single, “Love Story,” hit the radio waves in 2008, I was in Georgia, driving around lost. An impromptu road trip with a friend from the battle scars of a recent heartbreak. Being an English major in college and being naturally critical of Shakespeare’s …

This is a greatest hits collection of songs from Type O Negative. The album was hastily thrown together and released with a generic album cover, and without the consent of the band, Roadrunner Records had the right to do it, so they did. This collection could be the reason …

Twentieth Century Fox is a song by The Doors which appears on their self-titled debut record. The song opens up with a nice guitar riff by Robby Krieger before the drums join in along with a nice organ line before Morrison comes in with the vocals. Morrison has a …

Sugar Magnolia is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their record American Beauty. Sugar Magnolia opens up with a bouncy sounding rhythm which has an extremely lighthearted tone to it and you can certainly tell that this song will be a lot better than an average …

There is not a year that goes by that I don’t happily listen to my Bing Crosby Sings Yuletide Favorites CD. This is classic holiday music, and it’s done with simplicity and a joy of the season. For the most part, it’s the crooner doing what he …

This is the fourth album by the international successful pop group the Backstreet Boys. This is also their last album before the group broke up (before the current re-union). I have really waited for that album, thinking about how wonderful it was going to be. I must mention that …

Shinedown made their debut back in 2003 with an impressive album titled “Leave A Whisper”.The album is a unique journey into the heart of four musicians who blend their creative outlook, philosophy, and positive message into an unrelenting melody.Rarely, does a band come along that has the power to …

Whatever people say about Justin Bieber i just kind of blow over. If you actually listen to his music theres just no way you can say he cant sing. He nails every note spot on, stop hating because this cd is what successful young artists and dreams coming true …

As a classical enthusiast and performer myself, I have a large CD library with around nine or ten recordings of the infamous, devilishly difficult Sibelius Violin Concerto. Joshua Bell is one of my favorite violinists, and a friend gave me a CD of him playing the Sibelius and …

The Fame Monster was released as a double CD, with all of the songs from The Fame on disc 1 and the new released songs exclusive to The Fame Monster on disc 2. It can definitely be seen to be a lot darker than the first album, but in …

Jay-Z
“Izzo (H.O.V.A.)”
The Blueprint
Roc-A-Fella Records
Jay-Z delivers his first single and music video, “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)”, from his sixth album titled “The Blueprint”. Once again, Jay-Z samples “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5, the last time he did that was with “I Just Wanna Luv U (Give It 2 Me)” …

Money is a song by Serj Tankian which appears on his debut album away from System Of A Down, Elect The Dead. Money opens with a piano part which moves very quickly and actually has a pretty interesting rhythm as it first starts up. The piano continues to play …

I was waiting for you release by Tom Waits for a very long time. And I was very happy when it finally came. I really did not believe that Tom Waits is going to release another album and you can imagine how surprised and pleasantly surprised in the first …

It’s All Over Now is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their album 12 X 5. The song is a cover so I can’t talk much about the parts themselves but I can talk about the execution of the song. The track starts out with a …

Road House was an action adventure film from the late 1980’s which starred Patrick Swayze as a philosophical bouncer named Dalton. This review focuses on the musical soundtrack for this Zen-like movie.
I’ll start with my favorite tracks, which naturally are the two songs which Swayze sings. Both …

Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein is a 1996 E.P. by the black metal band Cradle of filth. This was released on cacophonous records to fulfill the band contractual obligation. This is the band’s second release, it is better then the previous album in some ways, the vocals are …

I went to see Mark Knopfler, the ex Dire Straits guitar supremo, last Wednesday in the O2 Arena in Dublin. In a word it was magic ! I am quite a critical person but this gig just ticked all my boxes and it just got better as the night …

Switchfoot is a fairly new indie band that is emerging quite well in my area. I do not know if the rest of the country, or the world, for that matter, are aware of Switchfoot, but I really like this band and see them as a great up and …

Salty Dog is a song by Flogging Molly which appears on their album Swagger. The track starts off fairly quietly with just an acoustic guitar strumming a chord progression and then a fiddle playing a lead over it before the rest of the band comes in to double this …

The Foo Fighters came about when the grunge band Nirvana ceased to be due to Kurt Cobain’s untimely death. I have always loved the Foo Fighters and the relationship to Nirvana has absolutely no bearing on my opinion of this cool band. I have seen them in concert as …

Badonkadonk is a song by Tracy Adkins that was considered to be controversial when it first came out. I finally listened to it one day in full on the radio and now when I hear it I think of men like my husband. It reminds me of them going …

I Remember Learning How To Dive is a song by Animal Collective and is the final track to appear on their 2005 EP, Prospect Hummer. Opening up with an incredibly simple percussive pattern, Bunyan rejoins the recording and contributes the vocals to the track with a multi-layered vocal delivery. …

Money Maker by Ludacris with Pharrell is a nice song that I like listening to and dancing to. It has a good beat to the song and I just love dancing to the song. To most this song is a dirty song and it is but it also can …

The Album: Reflections by After 7 from Sony Songs Inc., was released in 1995. Featuring some memorable tracks that made the love process go alot easier. Throwing this CD in especially on a rainy night with that special someone, or even if you have just lose that someone, you …

Enemy is a track by Scars On Broadway which shows up on their self-titled debut record. Enemy starts off with a very light guitar riff which is dominated by a wah effect and certainly has sort of a dancing, or at least moving, rhythm to it. Something notable on …

Quite honestly, I have no idea who Geoff Love is, but I assume he’s a band leader somewhere in the world. I had to get this CD, though, because it’s one of a handful I know of that includes the theme music to my all-time favorite western TV …

This little beauty can be your resident musician’s best friend. My husband purchased this for himself recently when he bought a new guitar. At the cost of $185.00 USD, it was still more inexpensive than other ones of the same type.
This pedal does it all! You will have to …

Music is always in the background wherever I’m at. I find it vital to a relaxed, yet fun atmosphere. That said, I like all kinds of music also. About the only stuff you’re not gonna hear around me is heavy rap, heavy metal, or heavy elevator …

Welcome To Paradise, one of Green Day’s most well known songs is a track which appears on Dookie. Aside from the tracks which are on American Idiot then I’d actually probably say that Welcome To Paradise, or Longview, would be the most well known Green Day song, and with …

I’m not totally a fan of girl groups but something about this song caught my attention. I was originally browsing in Instagram when one of my friends posted a song that what I thought to be original. It had a caption “Secret Love Song” and I listened to it, …

I Wanna Be Your Man is a cover of a Beatles song performed by The Rolling Stones. Generally when I review covers I’m not all that familiar with the original version of the song but in this case I know the cover and I know the original as well …

“Tical”, Method Man’s debut album is hailed as the greatest solo release from any of the Wu-Tang Clan. The beats were gritty, dark and utterly evil. The lyrics were lyrically amazing and channeled from the dark side. Not to mention Method Man’s strange demeanor, being the “different” member of …

All You Need Is Love is a song by The Beatles which appears on their album Magical Mystery Tour, the band’s most psychedelic work. The track starts off with a very royal and majestic sounding horn section before the vocals come in repeating the word “love”. Hopefully you can …

I love listening to Adam Corolla on 107.5. I listen to his show every morning on my way to work and once I get to work I turn it on in my office so I can hear the rest of the show. I love how honest Adam Corolla is. …

I Want You (She’s So Heavy) is a song by The Beatles which appears on their record Abbey Road. I will point out that this is the longest track on Abbey Road and also longer than the average Beatle song as its length is around eight minutes. The song …

Song Against Sex is a song by Neutral Milk Hotel which appears on their debut record On Avery Island. Opening up with some background noise before properly getting into the song, the band somewhat retains that fuzzy tone they had throughout their EP, but now they’re taking a more …

Golden Memories of Stage & Screen - CD is a four disk set that was released by Reader’s Digest Music. It’s a collector’s edition of original recordings, as it describes itself on the cover, and that is an apt description.
I find it very hard to even skip ahead …

Big Bird is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad and is the sixteenth and final track on their 2011 album entitled Knife Man. Opening up with the vocals singing alone, the track has a similar sound to the track to precede it, Free Bird, in that the vocal performance …

Smash is the third album by The Offspring, released in 1994, produced by Thom Wilson, the album has sold over 16 million copies. The album is really good. The songs on the album are all really great, Nitro is one of the best, and the song Bad Habit, about …

This was my fourth year at the festival and yet again I had a really great time.
I’m not a prolific festival goer, but have been to a few others - namely V Festival - and find they can be quite commercial, over-crowded and raucous. People go to get very …